Cycling Forum / Country Specific / UK Cycling / February 2010

This post refers to the incident in this report:
http://tinyurl.com/yh7bqsb from:
www.thelondonpaper.com/thelondonpaper/news/london/news/female-cyclist-hit-by-lor
ry-in-peckham-high-street
The recovered victim of this HGV left hook is a close friend of a

Checkout this TV programme next Monday at 7.30pm, or on iPlayer.
Presented by someone from Top Gear? Bound to be balanced and
objective? Yeah sure! It includes a Critical Mass interview. Someone
has hinted its covers going through red lights. Now there is a

"One of the questions is "Would you support the introduction of a
licence or registration process for cyclists?"
Currently, 57.42% "Disagree strongly".
http://www.iam.org.uk/iam_polls/

I put an oil port in a Shimano hub gear (for the full story why:
http://www.astounding.org.uk/ian/hubgear/index.html )
I've now been using the hub, with oil, for four weeks, so a review of
the outcome seems in order.

LOL. How very true and a good idea.
http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/8668/busn.jpg

Presumably they deliver mains voltage to chargers in the cars but
using hefty plugs instead of the standard three pin. If there was also
a three pin socket they could serve for bikes carrying their own
charger but I bet Boris hasn't thought of that., or doesn't want to.

Looks like it will be available for inspection long after the
motorists here have kicked the bucket and maybe even after cars as a
form of personal transport have ceased to exist.
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/target/7798820/source/search

again!

See:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/nov/05/cycling-deaths-department-of-transport
It cites inexperienced (and presumably untrained) cyclists taking to
the road, and risky behaviour such as red traffic light jumping as

Hi, I''m 5'6" ish (159 cm) with 29" (74cm) inside leg. I'd like to buy
a Galaxy, but the smallest frame size seems to be 54cm, which on paper
is much too big. Does anyone out there, my size, ride a Galaxy? Or
should I consider a different bike (road touring, gentle off-road too)

metallrente bu, erwerbsunfähigkeit versicherung, berufsunfähigkeit
versicherung vergleich, vergleiche versicherung, bu vergleich,
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I want to make you aware of the survey the IAM is currently running on
cyclists, see http://www.iam.org.uk/iam_polls/.
As an IAM member I am appalled by the whole tone of the survey, which very
much seems to regard cyclists as a problem to be solved, rather than as

I will not post on urcm since I have personal and fundemental reasons for
not doing so,
However I do make a weekly visit to see if there is any interesting
disussion in progress.( I confess that I find it boring, humourless and

I see Mason (that'll be the non-white listed Mason) has posted in the
club (known as URCM) :
Subject: Anti cycling rant in the DM.
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This looks like another classic HGV left hook:
Cyclist waits at red lights. HGV pulls alongside to turn left. HGV
driver pulls off forgetting there is a cyclist on his inside and kills
the cyclist.